Nature Happenings
- Perseids Meteor shower is mid-month.
- Earliest fall warblers start to arrive along the coast.
- Large flocks of shorebirds are passing through; Heermann's Gull young arrive from Mexico.
- Orioles and grosbeaks are migrating south for winter. Males leave at end of August and females with babies leave mid-September.
- Earliest fall songbird migrants arrive.